Jiwu and Guodong - 24-25 Sep

24 Sep to Jiwu - hotter than yesterday - more sun than previous days but everybody suffered from the heat and humidity.

flag-lined street - flags were being put up in preparation for
National Day on 1 October

Shade was an absolute must for stops for a drink

in towns, always dodging the 'competition' for the bike path

at last, out of the city with some pleasant scenery

We saw a few ponds that were absolutely full of ducks...
I suppose we can guess where Peking Duck comes from

Everywhere we go, there is constructions...
apartment buildings, factories, roads, bridges...

Note the scaffolding... bamboo... we are feeling more like we're on a bamboo road.

As well as lots of construction, a number of older areas around
towns are being destroyed to make room for new apartment buildings

no day is complete without dinner...
ours have been very good although we don't always ask
what we're eating

25 Sep - Overcast and mercifully cool as we get more off the beaten path into a national forest and up a narrow winding road to Guodong.

neatly laid-out farming en route...

Time to play when this is a lunch stop...



and some real live bamboo in the forest

Guodong main street - barely room for the busses to get in

 

ever wonder where those Santa bags come from in Dollar stores?

There's an industry up here at the end of the road

26 Sep - still cool, some neat back roads, even a muddy farm track before rejoining busy roads and on to Quzhou tonight.

27 Sep - still overcast and relatively cool - busy roads today to Shang Rao - a sizeable city - we're in nice hotel on the river with a bustling pedestrian zone shopping street just around the corner.

Photos to follow - tomorrow will be a tougher day, the seventh riding day in a row - 130 km with a 700 metre climb after lunch - but then a rest day.